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Minecraft Allows Animated Textures

The world of Minecraft is anything but stagnant. The landscape itself is constantly shifting and evolving thanks to players and the random generator alike. Now, the individual blocks within that world are getting in on the act. As spotted by Rock Paper Shotgun, Mojang's runaway hit now supports animated textures.

Mostly, this just means that modders will make water a little more watery, or perhaps have fields of grass move a little more realistically. But then, there will always be the crazies. The ones who want to push the limits of what Notch and company intended for the Snapshot update test. For those folks, I have a mission: I want a fully functioning movie theater by the end of the week. The film being shown? Why, The Matrix, of course. A movie about a digital world within a world that I can watch within a digital world within a world. Let's get real meta up in here.